Trump and the Unspeakable

[usonian]

28. Thanks! I took a photgraphy break, two actually. It's THAT time.

Wild Mule-Ear daisies are going bonkers. And I live on a ridge, so hitting the various patches of them requires lots of ups and downs, about 5 flights of stairs worth. Thank goodness, mostly on clear paths, though not all. Phew! You can see some of my stuff in the Photography group.

I don't interact with many people, being in the woods, but in the past, I have worked in a wild variety of places, from service time, aerospace, where people believed in doing away with the aged and infirm, to (next stop) Cal Berkeley. In another post I quoted the Lotus Sutra section on the Buddha's nemesis Devadatta, and how he, too attained Buddhahood. It's NOT "forgiveness", it's true equality, more my belief system.

And people probably forget all the changes we went through in the 60's, and most notably, how you can find me "yelling" at neer-do-wells to GET A HAIRCUT AND SHAVE and so on.

Things change.

One has to respect people who act on sincere and reciprocal beliefs ( not "OK for me but not for you" ) but the cult stuff, from what I've read on Q-ism, 10-15% max of some population (I forgot) is beyond me. I just try to understand the causes (mostly group identity, and that gets back almost always to racism) and try to think of ways to lessen its reach.

Joe Biden is actually doing "the right thing" with his kindness (give or take what's politically necessary to call out).

That's why cults close down information from the "outside" .. so they can re-image kindness as hate. (proejection)

Later.